Flying and cheek kiss

Hola Blog!

So, I arrived here to Catamarca around 14 o'clock the 21st of August, and I am gonna tell you about what had happened before and since.

Me and my lovely brother and sisters

All the Argentina Exchanges! Bye DK!

We all met at the airport in time, luckily enough, but felt like the time was gone on one second, and suddenly we were on our way to Frankfurt. I didn't even got to say a good goodbye to my family and it was all so confusing and hectic. :( But it took a second and then we were in Frankfurt and of to Buenos Aires. It took 15 HOURS! But there were some goooooood movies, like The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Lucky One (a lot of the's) and The Ciderhouse Rules, (Watched the all! Or not them all but them I just said! ;)) so I survived, even though the food was TERRIBLE!
But we got to Buenos Aires and some were picked up by there family, some for a 5 hours drive, and me and the others were of by CRAAZY cab to the other airport so we could get to our final distention. I went to Catamarca with Sølvi & Matilde, and it was an very nice 1.5 hour flight with them :) But in the airport the flight was about half an hour late, so we were late when we arrived. But we were beautifully received by the other exchanges and their families and the was a lot of cheek kissing and all that and their are all very nice! Well, I met my family and we went to the car and drove away to our home. It is a nice house that is pretty central and we can walk to almost everything :)  Here's very beautiful, and I got my own room with a view of the mountains. I have made friends with the other Rotarystudens and their brothers and sisters, and they are all SO nice and fun to be with. :) Sooo, long story short, I AM GOOOD! And getting a lot of attention from people shouting and whistling at me, and sometimes when I pass some boys they mumble like, "uuh, miamor" and stuff, sooo fun ;)

Me y (some of) me amigos! (Sis Sol in the middle in front)

The biggest change will be the dinner time! :D The first evening we went to the center with the guys and we were home about 22.00 and then we had dinner. When you are used to eat around/between 18-20 it pretty late actually! And the other day we ate at 23.30! Hehe, soup all the time! For dinner, you know, for lunch it have changed between chicken, fish and beaf I think. Mostly chicken, or should I say pollo ;)
Spanish is cool, and HARD! I practice every day with my sister, Sol, and I'm getting better, bur it's going slooooooowly! But I like the language, so I'm doing my best! And Sol is a good teacher, even though she's not the best at english, but it's only making it better, you know :) The other night we went to my friend Agustina and they tried to teach us how to dance AGENTINA STYLE! And we drank mate, a traditional type of tea that mostly is drunk with a lot of sugar :D But it's good, I most say. We had a lot of fun and so. Hahaha, so much fun... ;) Btw, are they very happy for sugar and salt over here, I've noticed, hehe. I have also been to some kind of "Queen Pre-selection" It was like a catwalk with some of the senior year girls, and you plan out the rest :) That included more dancing. They do that all the time, but that's okay, I like it :)

Mamá y Papá

- That's it for now! I'll pep you guys up later, with more experiences late. Miss ya!
oxox Ellen













- P.S. The blog will be updated when I have something interesting to tell you, and if you have any questions, just write them to me, and I will do my best to answer next time ;) 

The Final Countdown!

01 Day!

Enjoying the last evening in Denmark, with a lovely cup of tea on a balcony in Copenhagen

Packing

A "small" suitcase, LOTS of clothes

Next quest: Making this

Fit into this

Aaaaand I did it

And yes, it will close ;)

Departure Briefing

Two weeks ago I went to the departure briefing and met all the other students from Denmark that are going on exchange in all corners of the world, and to here about their choices and preparations.
I went there, with the two other girls from Als, by train It took 4 hours or something, it took soooo long! But when we almost reached our distention, the train got filled with Rotary students!
When we arrived we got rooms and roomies, and started talking about everything we knew about our exchange.
Later we all got together and we was told about do's and don't's on the school (we were staying on Gudenådalens Ungdomsskole all weekend) after we were divided into district groups and send out to traveltips and talking- and presentationtips. Very important! We also had national groups later, where we learned everything to know about being and exchange students in Rotary. We were guided by ex-students, you know, people there have been away before.
Saturday evening we had the traditional Hawaii party, and had sooo much fun! Really, it was the best. :D Everybody danced and partied and dressed up to Hawaii.
It was an interesting and learnable weekend and it made me even more excited to go than before. Good job Rotary! Just saying ;)

HI!

Hey people! My name is Ellen I'm 16 years old, and I just finished 9th grade with fine, fine grades.(;
I live in a tiny tiny town called Nordborg on a little island called Als in the southern Denmark. And in less than a month I am going for exchange to Argentina! I am really excited and can not wait to go! Yesterday there was a month to my travel day. Time is flying, and before I know it I will be there.
On this blog I will tell you all I can about my stay and my preparations to it, hope you'll enjoy it. :)